Olancha, California.
Typical home $301,804 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$398 (+34%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $11,683 +4%
- $290,121$301,804 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Olancha$1,584
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Olancha, CA rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Olancha, Inyo County, California
Olancha, in Inyo County, had 131 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Inyo County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Inyo County work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Olancha is a very small community, and its people are older on the whole than in most of the country. Few households here fall below the poverty line, and homes are valued at a level many buyers elsewhere in California would find modest. Winters are cold, with freezing nights, and summers are hot, while the air is dry enough that rain and melted snow add up to very little over a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Across Inyo County, the largest workplaces include the County of Inyo, Northern Inyo Hospital and the Oasis at Death Valley run by Xanterra Parks and Resorts. Unemployment across the county is the same as a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. South Sierra Wilderness and Coso Range Wilderness are both protected areas a short drive away, good for hiking and open country. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Owens Lake and to Diaz Lake, and to the Mount Whitney Trail for those who want a serious mountain walk.
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- 4%below the poverty line
What people in Inyo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Inyo County had 7,687 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 50° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 62°. About 6 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Haiwee weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Inyo County
- County of InyoGeneral services departments, government470
- Northern Inyo HospitalCritical access hospital325FTE
- Xanterra Parks and Resorts Inc The Oasis At Death ValleyHotels except casino hotels and motels294
- Bishop UnifiedSchool district243FTE
- VonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores117
- City of BishopExecutive offices, federal, state, and local92
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture91
- Southern Inyo HospitalCritical access hospital87FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,973 people in all across the county; Olancha has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Heat wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Olancha’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Inyo County.
Olancha home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Olancha$301,804
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Olancha address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Olancha — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.